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Webcast: An archived copy of the webcast of the DIRECTV Group's third quarter 2009 earnings call will be available on the company's website at www.directv.com/investor.

The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment services. Through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries in Latin America, the DIRECTV Group provides digital television service to more than 18.3 million customers in the United States and over 6.0 million customers in Latin America.

SOURCE: DIRECTV

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I believe Scott was responding to this portion of the other poster's question...

Yea OnDemand content will have nothing to do with D12 but might get discussed at the meeting since a lot more people are trying to use this service. Im pretty sure they will bring up additional HD channels.

Remember that this is just a financial conference call that goes over the numbers (profit, sub growth, stock, etc). It's not often that much else gets discussed and almost never do things like individual channels or something like HBO onDemand will be talked about.

What I would expect would probably be a question about Versus since that is a very public thing. But what are they going to say? What they already have in the press.

They will certainly mention D12 and the extra capacity it will bring, they have in all previous calls.

I'm just reminding people to temper their expectations, this is just a financial call and nothing more.

"The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV) today reported that third quarter 2009 revenues increased 10% to $5.47 billion, operating profit before depreciation and amortization1 (OPBDA) increased 8% to $1.35 billion while operating profit increased 4% to $685 million compared to last year's third quarter. Third quarter net income attributable to The DIRECTV Group increased slightly to $366 million while diluted earnings per share increased 12% to $0.37 compared with the same period last year."

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""In the United States, DIRECTV revenues increased 9% to $4.7 billion due to solid subscriber and ARPU growth. Continued robust demand for our service fueled an 8% increase in gross additions to 1.1 million subscribers and net additions of 136,000 primarily due to the addition of AT&T as a marketing partner and record demand for our industry-leading HD and DVR services." Hunter continued, "In fact, about two-thirds of new subscribers signed-up for HD and/or DVR services in the quarter representing the highest level in our history.'

It will be interesting to see how Dish does this quarter especially after all the anti DirecTV ad's they've been running durning it

Streaming NFL games to cell phones is much more popular then they thought.
TV Apps has also been popular.

New services coming out:
1) NEW whole home MRV and networked DVRs coming out in a few months that have new hardware and media built in.
2) NEW advanced search engine coming soon to be more like a PC including DVD cover art
3) NEW movie service which will piggy back on the new satellite. [He talked a bit more but I missed it. This might be the "Netflix type" service that was talked about in the last couple calls.]
4) New Sat will also increase capacity to over 200 HD channels